Edmund Purdom
Personal Info
Known for
Acting
Gender
Male
Birthday
1924-12-20
Day of Death
2009-01-01 (84 years old)
Place of Birth
Welwyn Garden City, Hertfordshire, England, UK
Edmund Purdom
Biography
Edmund Anthony Cutlar Purdom (19 December 1924 – 1 January 2009) was an English actor, voice artist, and director. He worked first on stage in Britain, performing various works by Shakespeare, then later in America on Broadway, until making his way to Hollywood, and eventually spent the remainder of his life appearing in Italian cinema. He is perhaps best known for his starring role in 1954's historical epic The Egyptian. By taking over important roles exited by Mario Lanza and Marlon Brando, Purdom was known by the mid-1950s as "The Replacement Star". Between the 1970s and 90s, he was a regular in European genre cinema, working with directors like Juan Piquer Simón, Joe D'Amato, Sergio Martino, Ruggero Deodato.
Known For
Acting
(2001)
Knights of the Quest
as Ugo di Clarendon
(1997)
7 Signs of Christ's Return
as Host
(1992)
(1990)
The Rift
as CEO Steensland
(1988)
Don Bosco
as Urbano Rattazzi
(1985)
Who's Afraid of Dracula?
as Count Vlad
(1985)
Killer vs Killers
as His Excelency
(1985)
The Assisi Underground
as Cardinal Della Costa
(1984)
Don't Open Till Christmas
as Inspector Harris
(1984)
The Making of a Horror Film
as Self
(1983)
Champagne in paradiso
as Paola's Father
(1983)
(1983)
Amok
as Jaarsveld
(1983)
2019: After the Fall of New York
as President of the Pan American Confederacy
(1982)
Pieces
as The Dean
(1982)
Ator, the Fighting Eagle
as Griba
(1982)
Invaders of the Lost Gold
as Rex Larson
(1981)
Absurd
as Father
(1980)
Sophia Loren: Her Own Story
as Vittorio de Sica
(1980)
Deep Thoughts
as The Pianist
(1980)
L'altra donna
as Phillip
(1979)
Concorde Affair
as Danker
(1979)
The New Godfathers
as Secret Service Chief
(1979)
Lo scoiattolo
as Robert Sincap
(1976)
Povero Cristo
as Man in Tuxedo / Satan
(1976)
Big Pot
as Professor Vanderberg
(1976)
Rulers of the City
as Luigi Cherico
(1975)
The Night Child
as Doctor
(1974)
The Suspects
as American journalist
(1974)
Fifteen Year Old Captain
as Admiral Marlowe
(1974)
Frankenstein's Castle of Freaks
as Prefect Ewing
(1973)
From the Archives of the Criminal Police
as Teddy Webbs
(1973)
The Sinister Eyes of Dr. Orloff
as Inspector Crosby
(1973)
The Big Family
as Giovanni Lutture
(1972)
The Devil's Lover
as Gunther
(1972)
Karzan, Jungle Lord
as Lord Carter (voice) (uncredited)
(1971)
Blackie the Pirate
as The Viceroy
(1971)
The Fifth Cord
as Edouard Vermont
(1970)
Thomas
as Marcus
(1970)
Naked and Violent
as Narrator (voice): English version
(1970)
Witchcraft '70
as Narrator (voice) (English version)
(1969)
Naked England
as Narrator (English version)
(1969)
The Queer ... The Erotic
as Narrator (voice)
(1969)
Wages of Sin
as Narrator
(1968)
Excuse Me, Do You Like Sex?
as Narrator of English version
(1968)
Gun Shy Piluk
as Piluk
(1968)
Sweden: Heaven and Hell
as Narrator (English version)
(1968)
(1966)
The Man Who Laughs
as Cesare Borgia
(1965)
Texas Jim
as Tom Jameson / Jim James
(1965)
Assault on Fort Texan
as Major 'Sugar' Patterson
(1964)
The Yellow Rolls-Royce
as Fane
(1964)
The Beauty Jungle
as Rex Carrick
(1964)
The Last Ride to Santa Cruz
as Sheriff Kelly
(1964)
The Comedy Man
as Julian Baxter
(1962)
Lafayette
as Silas Deane
(1961)
White Slave Ship
as Dr. Bradley
(1961)
Nefertiti, Queen of the Nile
as Tumos
(1961)
The Last of the Vikings
as King Sveno
(1961)
Suleiman the Conqueror
as Ibrahim Pascià
(1960)
The Cossacks
as Shamil, the Sheik
(1960)
Fury of the Pagans
as Toryok
(1960)
Das große Wunschkonzert
as Harry Mell
(1960)
The Night They Killed Rasputin
as Rasputin
(1960)
The Loves of Salammbo
as Narr Havas
(1960)
Moment of Danger
as Peter Carran
(1959)
Herod the Great
as Erode
(1959)
The Diary of Anne Frank
as British Radio Announcer (voice) (uncredited)
(1957)
Ambush in Tangier
as John Milwood
(1956)
Strange Intruder
as Paul Quentin
(1955)
The Prodigal
as Micah
(1955)
The King's Thief
as Michael Dermott
(1954)
The Egyptian
as Sinuhe
(1954)
Great Lady Has an Interview
as Reporter (uncredited)
(1954)
Athena
as Adam Calhorn Shaw
(1954)
The Student Prince
as Prince Karl Franz
(1953)
Titanic
as Second Officer Lightoller (uncredited)
(1953)
Julius Caesar
as Strato
Crew
(1984)
Don't Open Till Christmas
Director